The Contract Man

Alex King, Book 1

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The Contract Man

By: A P Bateman

Narrated by: Joe Mills

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Amazon number-one best seller for over three weeks

When an MI6 agent is found to be keeping records of his missions to protect himself from betrayal he unwittingly makes himself a priority target. But how do you silence the most dangerous man imaginable? Send him into hell on earth....

While Alex King is sent into Northern Iraq to tidy the loose ends of a botched mission, the archipelago of Indonesia is under communist threat from within its own military. A consortium of worried businessmen call for desperate measures and seek the services of an assassin. But what if MI6 could be duped into taking care of their problems for them? With secret links to China the communist contingent threatens Britain's trade initiatives with the largest mineral producing country on the planet.

In the dark world of intelligence it seems that everybody has their price.

Genre Fiction

Military

Modern Detectives

Mystery

Thriller & Suspense

War & Military

Fiction

Exciting

Espionage

War

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A rip roaring exciting story, excellently read and superbly written- Joe Mills does a fabulous job of narration.

I thought it was so good I purchased the second book, alas although I’m sure the story was just as exciting- the narrator was not Joe Mills but someone else who completely bollocksed up the story with his crappy attempt.
I tried 3 times to listen to it ......
and 3 times I gave up after 4or 5 chapters .

I got a refund.

Yes I know this isn’t a review for the second book but having returned it I can’t review it.

AUDIBLE- WILL YOU PLEASE SORT OUT WHO IS CAPABLE OF NARRATION BEFORE YOU RELEASE A BRILLIANT BOOK WHICH GETS A POOR PERFORMANCE BY A CRAP NARRATOR
AND

AS YOU GET TO CHOOSE THE NARRATOR- TRY AND EMPLOY SOMEONE WHO HAS A PAIR OF EARS BEFORE YOU LET THEM LOOSE TO KILL A POTENTIALLY GREAT BOOK!!